Courtesy of Morgan State Athletic Communications
The medical crisis impacting the nation and the world has caused sports across the globe to come to a standstill for the time being. For example, the Olympics scheduled for the summer of 2020 in Japan has been postponed until 2021.
While we wait on the sports world to get back on track, this is a good time to revisit the illustrious past of Morgan Athletics. Over the next few weeks we will tap into the archives for historic game recaps and stories.
Here's what happened on Nov. 21, 2007:
Adams Records Triple-Double; Lady Bears Rout NCCU, 85-40
By Kevin C. Paige, MSU Athletic Communications
BALTIMORE, Md. (Nov. 21, 2007)--Coming off of back-to-back heartbreaking four-point losses last weekend at the Longwood Classic, the Lady Bears were eager to return home for their home-opener against North Carolina Central and get back in the win column.
Morgan State fans were not disappointed, as they witnessed sophomore guard Corin Adams record the school's first triple-double, while the team erupted for 50 second half points in its 85-40 rout of the Eagles in a non-conference game at Hill Field House on Wednesday night.
Corin "Tiny" Adams on the attack at rival Coppin State.
A 5-foot-5 native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Adams scored 11 points, dished out 10 assists and tied the school mark for steals with 11 to collect the triple-double. Adams, who scored all of her points in the first half and totaled nine thefts in the first half, before picking up her 11th with 45 seconds left in the game. Her 11 steals tied her with two former Lady Bears for the single game high at Morgan State. Kaira Warfield was the last Morgan player to accomplish that mark against Maryland Eastern Shore on Feb. 24, 1996, while Mary Frazier recorded 11 against West Chester on Jan. 10, 1981.
. "Every game we've played we've started out slow. So I have to do something to get this first half going. We've scored 40 points each second half, 50 tonight, so I'm happy for the kids but I am not content and we have to work on getting started." head coach Donald Beasley said. "I'm really not happy for the performance in the first half."
"I didn't realize it until the last couple of minutes and I heard I was still one (steal) away from the record," Adams said of her school record-tying steal performance. "As far as the triple-double, my coach kept looking at the table and asking for me, so I tried to get it."
For Morgan State coach Beasley, while proud of Adams' accomplishment, he was disappointed in Adams' lack of second half scoring.
Adams, Coach Beasley (left) and Athletics Director Floyd Kerr.
"Those are numbers that are good for her personally, but I'm disappointed that she had 11 points at the end of the first half and she ended the game with 11 points," Beasley said. "So mentality wise, she's not where I want her to be – a scoring machine. To not score any points in the second half is disappointing."
All 13 Morgan State players in uniform saw action and scored, as the Lady Bears shot a season-high 56.5 percent from the field on 35-of-62 shooting. Defensively, Morgan State forced 34 North Carolina Central turnovers, 25 of which were steals. The Eagles were held to 14-of-44 shooting (31.8 percent) and shot 21.4 percent (3-of-14) from three-point range.
Britney Griffin led the Lady Bears with a game-high 13 points and added a game-high seven rebounds. Danielle Scott finished with 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting to lead Morgan's bench, which outscored the Eagles' bench players, 47-7. Omega Boddie came off the bench and went 3-for-3, while connecting on both of her three-point attempts to finish with eight points. Jasmine Sellers and Theresa Davis also finished with eight points apiece. Sellers shot 3-for-4 from the field, including 2-of-3 from behind the arc.
Morgan State, which entered the contest having scored 40 or more points in the second half in its previous three games, exploded for 50 second half points against North Carolina Central. According to available records, the 50-point second half output ranks second all-time in school history.
Adams scored 25 in her final game at Coppin.
"I'm from the CIAA (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) and if I went down there (NCCU) they would have tried to kill me," Beasley said. "We've been scoring 40 points in every second half, so I think we are a scoring team, we just haven't started out early. I think 75 points is our average and I need to get us to where that is consistent in every game and I'll be happy but that's what I'm shooting for."
North Carolina Central (0-6), which is in its second year of a five year transition process in order to be classified as an NCAA Division I member, fell to 0-3 this season against Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opponents. Shanise Blanks led the Eagles with 11 points, while Jori Nwachukwu and Tonia Roundtree added eight points each.
"Coming off a two-game losing streak, we tried to play hard and once we noticed they couldn't really hang with us, we just tied to go at them," Adams said. "I think this game gave us a lot of confidence, so for Mount St. Mary's we should be ready and hopefully come out with the same intensity."
Bear Notes
• Corin Adams completed her first season as a video coordinator with the Morgan State men's basketball program during the 2019-20 season.
• Ultimate goal is to become the first female head coach of a men's Division I collegiate program and coach her team to the Final Four.
• Affectionately known as "Tiny," Adams was a four-year letterwinner and three-year captain for the Lady Bears.
• Adams finished her career as the school's all-time leader for both men and women in points (2,058), assists (455) and steals (405), while also ranking 13th on the women's charts in rebounds with 564.
• Set the program's single-season scoring mark as a senior with 581 points, breaking the previous record of 547 points, which she set the year before as a junior.
• She was selected to the MEAC Rookie Team and the MEAC Tournament Team in 2007, earned MEAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2008 and MEAC Player of the Year in 2010 and was named to the All-MEAC First Team from 2008-10.
• Recorded the first-ever triple-double in program history with 11 points, 10 assists and 11 steals against North Carolina Central on Nov. 21, 2007.
• Was featured in the March 22, 2010 edition of Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd. Click here
• Earned a bachelor's degree in Physical Education, as well as a master's degree from Morgan State.
• Named to the 2009-10 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I All-Star Second Team.
• Played professional basketball abroad from 2010-17, playing in Puerto Rico, Portugal, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Chile, Switzerland, Poland, Romania and Greece. Click here
• Co-Founded a non-profit organization: T3 Sports Inc. in 2014.
• Launched her own apparel brand TA9 in June of 2015 and released an autobiography entitled Tiny Setback, Major Comebacks: From Brooklyn to Europe in September 2015.
